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Chicagoans hoping to grab a direct flight to Havana will have to keep waiting.The U.S. Transportation Department on Thursday gave tentative approval to eight airlines to offer nonstop flights to the Cuban capital, but Chicago is not on any of the...

The war of words has gotten nasty, with the candidates describing the ideas of their rivals as “disingenuous,” “extreme” and “capricious.”
These are not the comments of presidential candidates. This is the language used by airlines that are competing...

United Airlines wants to provide regularly scheduled flights to Havana from Chicago and three other U.S. cities, the airline told the U.S. government Wednesday.
Chicago-based United earlier expressed interest in serving Cuba in the wake of the two...

Published in Chicago Tribune on March 04, 2016 — Print headline: "United seeks OK to fly to Havana - O'Hare among 4 U.S. airports in proposal"

Domestic airlines in August were tardier than last year, and carriers with a big presence in the Chicago region ranked below average, according to new numbers released Thursday from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
And, as usual in recent months,...

If you were trapped at an airport in Memphis or Miami or somewhere a week ago, we trust you finally got home to Chicago. A little worse for wear, though. As you know too well, thousands of people were disrupted when a contract worker allegedly sabotaged a...

Demands for answers and promises of technology breakthroughs bounced across Washington on Monday as the nation's air traffic control system continued its gradual recovery from the fire at an Aurora radar facility that has grounded thousands of flights...

O’Hare International Airport is on pace to again be the world’s busiest airport, a designation it lost a decade ago, Chicago city officials said Wednesday.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport wrestled the top honor away from O'Hare in 2005...

U.S. hospitals may be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community at risk, biosafety experts said.
Waste management...

Airlines in the U.S. were more on time in July, but some of the largest carriers in the Chicago region fared poorly in punctuality, as did Chicago Midway airport.
The nation’s largest airlines posted an on-time arrival rate of 75.6 percent in July, up...

Signs on railway station platforms in Boston, New York and Toronto are intended to offer help to anyone who is emotionally distressed or suicidal — a last-ditch effort to keep people from taking a final, fatal step onto the train tracks.Increasingly,...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today proposed new rules on "high-hazard" shipments of crude oil by trains, including a phase-out of older model tank cars that critics contend are unsafe.
The department proposed that the older model tank...

U.S. airlines posted worse on-time rates in May and Chicago airports ranked dead last for on-time departures.
U.S. airlines were on time 76.9 percent of the time, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation. That’s...

Chronic fatigue at airport towers and government radar facilities that direct planes is still a major threat to safety, three years after a “sleeping controllers’’ scandal spurred the Federal Aviation Administration to focus on evening out work schedules,...

The recent spate of accidents in the U.S. and Canada involving trains carrying crude oil demonstrates that “far too often, safety has been compromised,” the head of the top U.S. transportation safety agency said today.
The amount of crude oil transported...

The CTA said Wednesday it is moving forward with a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the Red Line’s aging north branch tracks and stations, just hours after South Siders aired complaints to the agency’s board that Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s promised southern...

The current battle between cabbies who pull a meter and upstarts who book fares via a smartphone app is evocative of an action-packed taxi drama that long ran on Chicago streets.
Decades before Uber and Lyft, taxis that operated outside municipal...

Two high-priority CTA projects that lack money for construction — the overhauls of the Red Line north branch and Purple Line and a planned bus rapid transit corridor along Ashland Avenue — are on a national list of mass-transit initiatives that the...

Airline delays and cancellations have dropped significantly in the last few years. At least that's what federal statistics show. But the numbers may not be telling us the whole story.
That is one of the conclusions in a new report by the office of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation waded into the fray on the use of cell phones during airplane flights on Thursday, saying that his department would consider whether such calls should be banned even as the...

Luis Sanchez’s life was forever changed after he saw a flyer for Joliet Junior College’s “Driving America: One Veteran at a Time” commercial driver’s license (CDL) training program in the DuPage County Veterans Assistance Office last summer.
When...